Blessed at the Broken Places: Reclaiming Faith and Purpose with the Beatitudes Format:Paperback —from Chapter 18

—from Chapter 18

hidden in the rocky Scottish cliffs

and legend

and the offbeat are viewed through a kaleidoscope of colorful Chicago neighborhoods populated by outrageous characters

but discovers that perhaps the devil is not what we should truly fear

Blessed at the Broken Places: Reclaiming Faith and Purpose with the Beatitudes Format:Paperback —from Chapter 18Discover how Jesuss blessings convert emotional suffering from a source of shame to a resource for faith. When you hurt, what does it mean for your faith? Too often church culture and religious individuals suggest that emotional pain shows lack of faith or sin against a punitive God. How ironicJesus suffered loneliness, misunderstanding, persecution and death to meet us at the lowest places and lift us to hope and life with his resurrection. Reframing